NATIONAL BRIEFING / FLORIDA
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Thunderstorms prevented space shuttle Atlantis from returning to its home base for the second day in a row and kept the astronauts circling Earth after a successful repair job at the Hubble Space Telescope.
The offshore storms, which later moved in, prompted NASA to skip both morning landing attempts at Kennedy Space Center. Despite an equally dismal forecast for today, Mission Control opted to wait out the bad weather rather than take a detour to California.
Atlantis has enough supplies to orbit until Monday.
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